The police did their business as Bette and Tina stood on the porch.

One of the detectives took their statements, making notes of what Henry had done earlier in the day. The forensic team turned up and started to collect finger prints, which they would check against the prints that they had took off Henry in the police station earlier that day.

Detective: ‘Miss Porter would you please accompany me through your house, and let me know if anything is missing?’

Bette took a deep breath and entered the house. Tina stayed outside on the porch.

As she walked through the house, the devastation of what had been done to her home hit her like a ton of bricks.

She read the messages that were left on her walls in red spray paint…. Feeling sick to the stomach that someone that malicious had been in her home, a home that she had previously shared with Tina and still shared with Angie. Her priceless paintings were destroyed. The painting she had bought Angie when she was born was slashed to pieces.

The contents of all her draws and cupboards in the kitchen had been emptied on to the floor and trampled. The tv had been thrown to the floor and lay in a crumpled heap.

As she walked through to Angie’s bedroom, she could not help but gasp.

The detective put his hand on the small of her back: ‘I know this is hard but I need to know if anything was stolen.’

Bette breathed in a deep breath and went into Angie’s room.

Bette kept a picture of her, Tina and Angie on the table that was next to Angie’s cot. It was no longer there, she looked of the floor amongst the devastation looking for it..

Bette: ‘There was a picture there, of me Tina, and our daughter, it’s gone… how could someone do this to a childs bedroom’

Detective: ‘someone out for revenge by the looks of the messages they left you.’

Toys and clothes lay everywhere. Angie’s favorite pj’s lay torn on the floor.

Bette reached to pick them up but the detective stopped her.

Detective: ‘we will need those as evidence, if you could please refrain from touching anything’